regardless of what happens with the fiscal cliff, we'll see these periodic fights over the budget ceiling or the deficit ceiling and it's going to happen repeatedly and the house is going to hold this over the administration and the treasury department and so the more i look at it, the more i'm becoming concerned that this is just some kind of ongoing, ugly process that has no real end in sight. >> and we will leave it on that note. stay with us. coming after the break, we want to talk specifically about municipal debt which has been one of the areas that perhaps has been under cover but has seen an impact as the fiscal cliff approaches. congress may be able to avoid the starry cliff. they're set to temporarily extend the u.s. farm bill. the move would keep a long dormant milk subsidy from coming back to life when the current bill expires today. under a new law, the milk could be forced at prices well above what farmers are getting now if that subsidy was pushed aside. let's get a look at what's on the agenda this week in the u.s. there is no data out today and markets will put in a full